Kevin's Weblog

2007-02-06

As promised, I did get the graphic novel from the library, and read
it in a couple days while I was travelling. It’s not really a fair
comparison, but visually the movie won out for me. Which is to say,
that the movie excellently captures the feel of book and draws the
viewer in to a degree that the comic just can’t hope to compete with.

The rearrangements of some parts of the plot didn’t bother me, nor
the updating of the apocalyptic mechanism. I did find interesting
the subtle shift in V’s philosophy, though. In the movie, he’s an
anti-totalitarian freedom fighter; in the comic, he’s an anarchist,
who just happens to be fighting a totalitarian regime. It’s a small
difference, but significant in the ultimate meaning of the work.